Proposition Summary

Initiative. Prohibits drilling from surface of tide, submerged or overflowed lands not heretofore leased or allocated. Authorizes Director of Finance on behalf of State to execute thirty-year subsurface leases upon fourteen and two-sevenths per cent royalty to State for extracting oil, gas or other hydrocarbons from beneath tide, submerged and overflowed lands by wells slanted from uplands, prohibiting pollution of tide, ocean, bay or inlet waters. Directs one-half State revenue from such leases be used to acquire, improve and maintain beaches and parks. Repeals conflicting legislation.

Proposition Number

4

Year

1936

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 971569; A: 47.3; N: 1081346; B: 52.7

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

Wm. E. Colby, Chairman California State Park Commission; Mrs. W. D. James, President California Federation of Womens Clubs; Hartley Russell, Grand President, Native Sons of the Golden West

Against Author

Culbert L. Olson, Senator, Thirty-eighth District, Chairman of Special Committee of State Senate Investigating Extraction of Oil and Gas from State Tidelands

Download

Share

COinS